Professor

Department of Political Science

East Asian Institute
Columbia University
420 West 118 Street
New York, NY 10027

TEL: (212) 854-8193
FAX: (212) 749-1497
Email: glc2@columbia.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  government bureaucracy; government-business relations; structural trade impediments; trade relations
• COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION AND MEDIA
  mass media; survey data analysis
• EDUCATION
  congressional exchange; education and society
• HISTORY
  history of trade unions; history of US-Japan relations; political and diplomatic history
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  communism; comparative politics; cultural and trade impediments; cultural exchange policy; defense cooperation; defense policy; defense procurement; domestic politics; economic policy; economic regulation; economic relations; elections; foreign aid; foreign policy and international relations; industrial policy; international economic policy; international public affairs; labor policy; leadership; local politics; military issues; minority issues (bilateral relations); monetary and fiscal policy; political change and domestic conflict; political culture; political economy; political ideology; political institutions; political participation, public opinion; political protest; political thought; public diplomacy; public policy; security policy; security relations; social and political change; trade policy; US policy affecting Japan-US relations
• RELIGION
  religion and politics
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  contemporary society; cultural and social change; generational change; internationalization; Japanese intellectuals; law and society; minority and ethnic groups; minority issues (domestic); organizational decision-making; organizations and institutions; popular culture; social control; social structure; US perceptions of Japan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Columnist, Tokyo-Chunichi Shimbun; Senior Adviser, Newsweek Japan and Newsweek Korea; Adviser, US-Japan Parlimentary Exchange Program, Columbia University, 1968-92.

IN JAPAN: repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Japanese Foreign Policy After the Cold War: Coping with Change (M.E. Sharpe, 1993); The United States, Japan, and the New Asia: Challenges for US Policy (W.W. Norton, 1993); The Japanese Way of Politics (Columbia University Press, 1988); Election Campaigning Japanese Style (Columbia University Press, 1971).